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Sojourners in a strange land : Jesuits and their scientific missions in late imperial China

Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert. This work develops a genealogy of Jesuit conceptions of scientific life within the Chinese mission field from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.Read more...

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"Sojourners in a Strange Land will be an essential addition to the literature on the encounter between China and Europe in the seventeenth century and the role played by scientific knowledge in that encounter. It is a subtle, erudite, and highly readable account of this complex episode in seventeenth-century world history." - Nicholas Dew, McGill University"Read more...